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FONTTOSFNT(1)                          General Commands Manual                         FONTTOSFNT(1)

NAME
       fonttosfnt - Wrap a bitmap font in a sfnt (TrueType) wrapper

SYNOPSIS
       fonttosfnt [ options ] -o file.ttf [ -- ] font...

DESCRIPTION
       Wrap a bitmap font or a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or OpenType) wrapper.

OPTIONS
       -v     Be verbose.

       -c     Do  not crop glyphs.  This usually increases file size, but may sometimes yield a mod‐
              est decrease in file size for small character cell fonts (terminal fonts).

       -b     Write byte-aligned glyph data.  By default, unaligned data is written, which yields  a
              smaller file size.

       -r     Do not reencode fonts.  By default, fonts are reencoded to Unicode whenever possible.

       -g n   Set  the  type  of  scalable  glyphs that we write.  If n is 0, no scalable glyphs are
              written; this is legal but confuses most current software.  If n is 1, a single  scal‐
              able  glyph  (the undefined glyph) is written; this is recommended, but triggers a bug
              in current versions of FreeType.  If n is 2 (the default), a sufficiently high  number
              of blank glyphs are written, which works with FreeType but increases file size.

       -m n   Set  the  type  of scalable metrics that we write.  If n is 0, no scalable metrics are
              written, which may or may not be legal.  If n is 1, full metrics for  a  single  glyph
              are  written, and only left sidebearing values are written for the other glyphs.  If n
              is 2, scalable metrics for all glyphs are written, which increases file  size  and  is
              not recommended.  The default is 1.

       --     End of options.

BUGS
       Some of the font-level values, notably sub- and superscript positions, are dummy values.

SEE ALSO
       X(7), Xserver(1), Xft(3x).  Fonts in X11.

AUTHOR
       The version of Fonttosfnt included in this X.Org Foundation release was originally written by
       Juliusz Chroboczek <jch AT freedesktop.org> for the XFree86 project.

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